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Find out at Science Fact or Fiction 2.0 - a big screen experience where the World Wide Web collides with cutting edge science. Fact or Fiction 2.0 is a 90 minute show where the audience watch popular internet clips before voting on whether the information featured is actual science fact or pure science fiction.

Once the audience voting has been locked in, a panel of ANSTO scientists will critique the science featured and provide the answer. Fact or Fiction has been designed to be highly entertaining and educational and attract those that aren’t necessarily interested in science by providing them with a big dose of pop-culture.

As part of the interactive format of our show, we recommend the audience please bring their own devices with WiFi connectivity capability (which we will connect to the venue's WiFi). Devices can include smartphones, tablets and laptops.

What happens online in 60 seconds in 2017?

In just one minute, there are:

3.8 million Google searches

293,000 Facebook posts

700,000 hours of YouTube watched

156 million emails sent

67k photos uploaded to Instagram

448k tweets posted

1.4 million minutes of Skype calls

2.66 million Google searches

The latest fact or fiction:

Wikipedia – more fact than you think

In 2010, a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that Wikipedia had the same level of accuracy and depth in its articles about 10 types of cancer as the Physician Data Query, a professionally edited database maintained by the National Cancer Institute.

The internet is eating your memory - but something better is taking its place

In the years since the world started going digital, one of the big changes has been that we don’t need to remember very much. Why risk forgetting a partner’s birthday or a dinner date with a close friend when you can commit the details to your computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet and get a reminder at the appropriate time? Read more

Can I have the internet in my eye?

Five years ago, we wouldn’t have thought about the Internet as something we’d access regularly on a mobile device. Twenty years ago, most of us didn’t think about the Internet at all. With such a rapidly-evolving technology, what could the future hold? Read more